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Automation comes to Skene Memorial Library!

Skene Library is part of the Four County Library system (4CLS). That allows Skene patrons to request books from the online 4CLS catalog which lists books from all branches of the 4CLS that have their collection online. The requested books are then delivered to Skene once a week and the patron can pick them up locally. Right now Skene’s books are not listed in the on-line catalog.

But the inter-library loan system is about to really expand. NY State has mandated that all libraries must be automated by 2021, so our library must start the automation process that will allow other 4CLS patrons to request our books. The inter-library loan expansion will greatly increase the books available to Skene patrons and will also give us more frequent delivery of requested books – from one to two days a week.

In order to expand our services we need two kinds of help from our patrons:

VOLUNTEERS – to help us barcode the 8000 books in our collection so they can be added to the 4CLS online catalog.

DONATIONS – to pay for the barcoding materials and printers, as well as the ongoing access cost to participate in the 4CLS online system.

Please contact Linda Rodgers our Librarian at 845-254-4581 or come by and sign up to Volunteer or make a Donation

Skene Memorial Library1017 Main StreetFleischmanns, NY 12430

Donations Welcome

Budgets are tight everywhere these days, and the cost of heating the library remains high. The funding from state and local governments covers only a portion of our budget so we supplement it with our fund-raising book and tag sale each May.

We encourage donations from individuals, no matter what amount. With your help, we can continue to obtain the best in books and audio and DVD materials. We thank all those who have donated books and other items for our collections and sales, and eagerly encourage such donations.

Four County Library System

Skene Memorial Library is a member of The Four County Library System, a cooperative network among Delaware, Broome, Otsego and Chenango counties, which extends considerably our “book borrowing” capacity. Ask our Librarian about it or Click here to visit their site….

Internet Access

Skene Memorial Library has 4 public access computers for internet surfing, research or Microsoft Office applications. In addition there is free wifi access for your own laptop.

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Remembering Dorothy Minion

It is with sadness that we note the passing of Dorothy Minion who worked for many years as a daily Skene Memorial Library volunteer and also as a librarian substitute. Library visitors will remember Dorothy for her kind and mild demeanor and for her hard work.

Just short of her 91st birthday Dorothy died suddenly on August 31, 2019. Born in Manchester, UK on November 13, 1928 she attended school in England and, before coming to the US, worked as a bookkeeper at a cigarette factory.

With her husband Norman Dorothy emigrated to the US in August of 1964 and was employed as a secretary at Lebanon Hospital in New York City. In 1980 she moved to Fleischmanns where she has lived ever since.

In memory of our late colleague and friend, The Board of Directors of Skene Memorial Library has decided to rename the reference room The Dorothy Minion Memorial Reading Room. Donations in memory of Dorothy Minion may be made to the Skene Memorial Library, Fleischmanns, NY.

For further information, please contact the Library Director, Linda Rodgers at 845-254-4581

New Book Acquisitions

A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel AllendeThe Secrets We Kept by Lara PrescottAmerican Dirt by Jeanine CumminsA Minute to Midnight by David BaldacciAgent Running in the Field by John Le CarreOnce Night Falls by Roland MerulloA View Across the Rooftops by Suzanne KelmanAbigail by Magda SzaboThe Third Daughter by Talia CarnerThe Train To Crystal City by Jan Jarboe Russell